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    TV Review: Alcatraz Should Never Have Been FreedAnother J.J. Abrams show, another procedural with mythological teases that makes you miss Lost.
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    Seitz: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Offers Only a Fleeting Sense of Relief for the West Memphis ThreeIt’s eclipsed by a sense of emotional, physical, and spiritual exhaustion.
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    Seitz: ¡Rob! Is Not the Comedy ApocalypseThat doesn’t mean it’s great, mind you.
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    Meet Vulture’s New TV Critic, Matt Zoller SeitzWe gave him a questionnaire to reveal just what kind of TV viewer he is.
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    TV Review: AMC’s Earnest Hell on Wheels Encroaches on Deadwood’s TerritoryThe most immediately obvious distinction is a sense of humor: Deadwood has one. Hell on Wheels does not.
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    TV Review: Web Therapy Moves to TV But Still Feels Bite-SizedWhile funny, the comic possibilities are limited to stilted conversations, awkward silences, and misunderstandings
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    Why You Should Have Been Watching Treme Instead of The Killing’The Killing’ claims to be a “holistic journey” that doesn’t “tie things up in a bow,” but ‘Treme’ really is.
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    In Wilfred a Dog Gives Lessons on How to Be a ManTo smoke pot, hump waitresses, and be men.
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    TV Review: Is United States of Tara the New Dexter?’Tara’ has many of the strengths of ‘Dexter,’ not so many of its weaknesses.
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    Nussbaum: An Ode to Cop Rock, TV’s Unsung Procedural (and Glee’s Secret Sauce)I’ve always thought back fondly on the 1990 Steven Bochco attempt at a musical procedural. It makes me wonder at the TV experiments we haven’t seen yet.
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    Nussbaum: Betrayed by DexterSeason five of the show had lots of things that made no sense, and, worse, felt exploitative — something I’d rarely thought about the show.
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    Nussbaum: The Office Christmas Episode Made Me Love the Show AgainUntil “Classy Christmas,” I’d thought that, with a few exceptions, this season had gone off the rails.
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    Nussbaum: Giving Thanks for Parenthood’Parenthood’ could easily be condemned for its yuppie navel-gazing. I say, bring on the navels. Let us gaze.
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    Nussbaum’s Critical Speed Round: Men of a Certain Age, Dexter, HIMYM, and MoreI’m a longtime fan of ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ but this season is bumming me out.
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    Nussbaum: The Good Wife’s Bait and Switch’The Good Wife’ is the first show about politics on a psychological level.
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    Nussbaum: Reconsidering Two and a Half Men’Two and a Half Men’ isn’t dirty ha-ha, it’s dirty depressing.
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    Why Is Hawaii Five-0 So Inexplicably Popular?I can just sum this up in one line: Please watcher ‘Terriers’ on FX instead.
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    TV Review: In Treatment Is Back on the CouchRomantic and agitating in turns, the HBO drama has, in its stealthy way, become one of the most experimental series on television.
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    Don’t Be Afraid of Dexter, He’s Killing in Season FiveShowtime’s drama about a serial killer is disturbing, sure, but also one of the most brilliant dramas on TV.
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    TV Review: The Stealthy, Noir-y Charms of Terriers’Terriers’ has pulled off a neat trick: looking like a procedural, then sneaking in something much more interesting.
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    TV Review: No Ordinary Family a Little Better Than Ordinary’No Ordinary Family’ is shaping up to be one of the few hits of this gloomy fall season, and while it wouldn’t be my top pick, I can’t begrudge it.
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    TV Review: My Generation Is TV CatnipWhat made me like this show, despite the fact that it is terrible?
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    TV Review: Running Wilde — the New Model for the Bad SitcomWow. This is bad. Not so bad it’s good. Just bad.
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    TV Review: Brassy and Sweet Raising HopeGreg Garcia (My Name is Earl) creates one of the few good new sitcoms for fall.
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    TV Review: Lone Star Lives Up to the HypeThe Fox drama about a con man in Texas deserves every bit of advance buzz.